Dieter Roth and the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka and Sigmund Freud would surely have agreed that making 385 chocolate busts of one’s father is not something that can be rushed. And so, with the late Dieter Roth‘s “Selbstturm” (Self Tower) barely half full of chocolate casts, his son, Björn, agreed that the makeshift kitchen–think plywood, a quartet of hot plates, aluminum stockpots, rubber molds–and the young people painstakingly producing them would become part of “Björn Roth.